How Many Cycles of blue state Default Ahead?

[william the wie]

The current mini-meltdown in the usual suspects of CA, IL, MA, NY & NJ are driven by better canals such as the 1959 completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Illinois waterway whose completion is not given in wikipedia because completion is being held up by law suits over invasive species. But the states downstream on the Mississippi could bankrupt IL even further without hurting themselves because the commodities markets could save money and pay lower taxes moving downstream. So the question is do enough other large population states with enough house seats see a high enough profit potential in letting the Blue states go down hill to force a cycle of collapse? Also can they get a good enough excuse to pass muster with the courts? FL and even more so TX are already getting a lot of the industries leaving the West Coast. NV, UT, CO NM and AZ are also moving up in the number of house seats.

Take something simple like a high speed rail system from the Mexican border to the Canadian border built in the Great Plains would add a great deal of value at much lower cost of construction than the same sort of rail system on either coast. It would also add a lot of congressional seats in red states.